From PHrank2139 at aol.com Tue Dec 5 06:49:17 1995
From: PHrank2139 at aol.com (PHrank2139 at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 06:49:17 -0500
Subject: CAUZ network
Message-ID: <951205064916_125365004@emout05.mail.aol.com>
FORWARDED MESSAGE
The Consortium of Aquariums, Universities and Zoos
[C.A.U.Z. for Worldwide Conservation]
This international network was formed ten years ago in response to the
perceived need to facilitate communication between university scientists
and educators and their counterparts in zoos and aquariums. While many
people at these institutions have shared interests and may even be studying
the same species, the sharing of data and collaboration on projects between
university scientists and zoo/aquarium professionals has been relatively
rare, especially when their institutions are in different countries.
Those who become part of the C.A.U.Z. Network share information on their
interests in specific taxonomic groups (e.g., Order Sphenisciformes), their
general interests (e.g., penguin ecology), and their current projects (e.g.,
field studies of the Humboldt penguin). Information from the C.A.U.Z.
database
is published in annual directories and also appears on its site on the
World-Wide Web:
http://www.fhcrc.org/~ialwww/CAUZ/CAUZ.html
This database is a searchable online. A keyword search for "penguin" can
find
Ed Diebold, the Director of Animal Collections at the Riverbanks Zoological
Park in Columbia, South Carolina, who studies Humboldt penguins in Chile.
Ed is also involved in trumpeter swan recovery and piping plover egg rescue
and is part of organized zoo efforts in the captive propagation of
raptors. Keyword searches also reveal addresses, phone and fax numbers and
email addresses (if available). [Email addresses in the C.A.U.Z.
database are "hot" so that one can contact a person by email with a "mouse
click" without leaving our Web Site.]
Collaborations made possible by the C.A.U.Z. Network can contribute
greatly to international conservation initiatives. Those involved in
wildlife research and conservation, restoration ecology, captive
propagation of endangered species, wildlife rehabilitation and
reintroduction, and veterinary medicine (esp. with exotic species) who
wish to become part of the C.A.U.Z. Network can contact its Coordinator:
Donna FitzRoy Hardy, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
California State Univ., Northridge
Northridge, California 91330 USA
Phone:(818) 885-4970 (or 885-2827 for messages)
Fax: (818) 885-2829
Email: dhardy at huey.csun.edu
C.A.U.Z. Web Site: http://www.fhcrc.org/~ialwww/CAUZ/CAUZ.html
From gregorh at hk.super.net Wed Dec 6 08:52:15 1995
From: gregorh at hk.super.net (gregorh at hk.super.net)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 21:52:15 +0800 (HKT)
Subject: Vacancies
Message-ID: <199512061352.VAA20768@is1.hk.super.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:50:32 -0500
From: PUISHAN at aol.com
Subject: Vacancies
I am writing with a request for suitable personnel for the following two
posts for UNDP:
=0D
1) A "Media Advisor" to work in Cambodia for 11 months for the 3 year ET=
AP -
Environmental Technical Assistance Programme". His/Her main duty will be=
to
assist the Government and NGOs to develop environmental education / publi=
c
awareness promotional materials; mainly TV programmes, films, radio shows=
,
performances, etc. The person should have a degree & experience in relat=
ed
fields & preferably work experience in Asia. UNOPS - Office of Project
Services is trying very hard to find somebody to begin the job in January=
=2E =
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2) A "Marine Expert" for a regional project for Vietnam, Cambodia, Thail=
and
and Laos. The project had a major terrestrial component, the key objectiv=
e of
which is to promote regional cooperations in nature conservation; involvi=
ng
transboundary protected areas, regional dialogue/networking, cooperation =
in
research, training, etc. The Marine Expert will be given a short contrac=
t of
3 months to initiate dialogue among the countries and recommend possible
cooperations. Biodiversity hotspot areas will be identified through
consultation with existing literature and national experts; except for
Cambodia where marine studies are especially limited and hence will
necessitate some field assessment. The person should hold a M.Sc degree =
(or
higher) on marine sciences & be experienced in marine conservation, prote=
cted
areas, policies, and preferably with work experience in the project
countries. =
=0D
I would be really grateful if you could spread the word around and assist=
us
find potential candidates for the above two projects. If you do find an
interesting party, please give him/her my email address puishan at aol.com =
or
ask them to write directly to:
=0D
Mr Roger Aertgeerts
Senior Project Management Officer
UNOPS
Fax: 1-212-906 6501
Em: roger.aertgeerts at undp.org
=0D
Many thanks & regards,
Catherine Cheung
RBAS, UNDP
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From Geok.Koh at jcu.edu.au Thu Dec 7 20:13:01 1995
From: Geok.Koh at jcu.edu.au (Esther Koh)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:13:01 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Mark Erdmann's contact
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Herman,
> First, I am trying to contact Mark Erdmann who has done some very
> interesting work on coral reef ecology. Does anyone know his e-mail or
> other address?
I have Mark's contact details. Please email me.
Esther G.L. Koh
Department of Marine Biology
James Cook University of North Queensland
Townsville, Q4811
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 61-77-814801
Fax: 61-77-251570
From 3rel1 at qlink.queensu.ca Wed Dec 13 16:38:10 1995
From: 3rel1 at qlink.queensu.ca (Lamond Robert E)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:38:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Graduate research on coral-reefs.
Message-ID:
Hello. I am a fourth year undergraduate student, searching for
a potential university to study and conduct graduate level reasearch on
Modern Coral Reefs. I will be graduating with a BscH in Geology from
Queen's University, Canada this April. I have been specializing in carbonate
sedimentology and invertebrate paleontology at Queen's and I am searching
for a graduate program on reef geology/ biology.
If anyone has knowledge of such a program, or has an address I
might contact for more information, please e-mail me at
3rel1 at qlink.queensu.ca. The nationality of the university is not as
important as the proximity to the reefs!
Thank you for your time,
Bob Lamond
From j.reichman at mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 15 00:17:22 1995
From: j.reichman at mail.utexas.edu (JAY RANDALL REICHMAN)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 23:17:22 -0600
Subject: Email Internet Virus
Message-ID: <199512150517.XAA11525@mail.utexas.edu>
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:55:02 -0600
>To: JLBrown68 at aol.com
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>Subject: Email Internet Virus
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From pdh at u.washington.edu Fri Dec 15 02:15:48 1995
From: pdh at u.washington.edu (Preston Hardison)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 23:15:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Email Internet Virus
In-Reply-To: <199512150517.XAA11525@mail.utexas.edu>
Message-ID:
The only pathogen here is the "Goodtimes Virus Alert". This hoary old
cyber-legend has been circulating around the Internet for three or
four years now, and is well known to be a junk alert. There simply is
no danger from a "Good Times" ascii file. You can get a virus from
a program embedded as a binary attachment to an email message, but
only after you have downloaded the file and executed it on your PC.
Merely reading an email message will not cause harm to your computer.
If someone knows otherwise, please supply an authoritative reference
(the reference to the "FCC" in the alert is bogus). Please don't
forward the alert on to other lists.
Preston Hardison
pdh at u.washington.edu
From jogden at jaws.marine.usf.edu Fri Dec 15 11:13:49 1995
From: jogden at jaws.marine.usf.edu (John Ogden)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:13:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: FKNMS Management Plan
Message-ID:
The following Open Letter sent to the Miami Herald and the Key West
Citizen is FYI.
December 14, 1995
An Open Letter to the Commercial Fishermen of the Florida Keys:
As most of you know, this week the Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC)
of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary finished its task of
reviewing the 10 Action Plans which form the Management Plan of the
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. These were revised over
the past year in a series of community meetings led by SAC members.
The Plan approved by the Council on December 12 will help to insure
that the fragile marine environment of the Keys will sustain and
enrich the lives of future generations. The approved Plan is the
culmination of 4 years of effort on the part of the SAC members who
worked hard to integrate the interests and concerns of their
various constituencies in a complicated, controversial, and
politically-charged task.
Fishermen's interests were ably represented by Tony Iarocci,
Michael Laudicina, SAC Chair Michael Collins, and by the many
fishermen who took valuable time away from their businesses to
attend hearings and meetings and to testify in a constructive
manner on the plan. In fact, it is fair to say that fishermen,
more than any other constituency, defined the Management Plan that
we all hope will be signed by the Governor at the end of 1996.
However, in my opinion the virtual elimination of the Replenishment
Reserves by the organized, disciplined, and effective campaign
against them seriously compromises the intent of the plan to
sustain the harvest of fisheries resources in the future. We need
at least three relatively small, representative Replenishment
Reserves strategically placed in the Upper and Lower Keys and in
the Dry Tortugas. The approved plan eliminated the Upper Keys
Reserve and left the one in the Dry Tortugas in limbo waiting
action by the National Park Service. There is only one effective
Reserve, a sliver of habitat from shore to the reef edge in the
Sambos.
The Reserves are critical to gather baseline data from undisturbed,
unharvested areas so we can assess the impact of harvest and
disturbance in the rest of the Sanctuary. Reserves are also an
experiment, one that the world is watching, to see if small,
strategically placed unharvested areas can provide "replenishment"
to the harvested resources outside its boundaries. There is a
scientific consensus that the Reserves will work, and there are
examples of early success from other countries including New
Zealand, Australia, Kenya, and many Caribbean nations.
You don't have to be told that the Keys fishery resources are
vulnerable; fishermen have seen this from yearly catches. What may
not be well known is that reefs appear to be particularly sensitive
to the removal of the large size classes of snappers and groupers
as well as parrotfishes. This disrupts the balance of the reef and
leads to elimination of corals and to dominance of the reefs by
algae. This is a condition that we are seeing nearly everywhere in
the Keys. The Replenishment Reserves are the only tool that we
have to assess these impacts and to define strategies that will
sustain the fisheries harvest.
I ask each of you to reconsider your position with respect to the
Replenishment Reserves. Talk with each other and with your leaders
and work with NOAA to place at least three Reserves in the
Sanctuary-- one in each of the major representative habitats of the
Keys. If this is accomplished we can continue the cooperative
interaction among the fishing industry, management agencies, and
the science community that has given us a remarkable and exemplary
Management Plan for the marine resources of the Keys.
Thank you for your consideration, congratulations on your very
effective and informative work, and Season's Greetings to all.
Sincerely,
John C. Ogden
Member SAC for Science
John C. Ogden Director Phone: 813/893-9100
Florida Institute of Oceanography Fax: 813/893-9109
830 First Street South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
From gheiss at geomar.de Fri Dec 15 11:02:19 1995
From: gheiss at geomar.de (Georg Heiss)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 17:02:19 +0100
Subject: Research programme on coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean
Message-ID:
Dear colleagues,
With this message we would like to spread information about a current
research programme on recent and fossil coral reefs in the Western Indian
Ocean.
If you would like to have more detailed information, please contact any of
the members of the group at the addresses listed at the end of this
message.
At the moment we are constructing a WWW-page with more information about
the activities of the group. As soon as we are online, you will be informed
via the coral-list.
Georg Heiss
_________________________________________________
CORAL AND REEF GROWTH IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Since 1994 a group of European reef geologists including workers from
France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. has been investigating Western Indian
Ocean reefs, studying paleoclimatology and sea-level changes. These studies
comprise localities over a latitudinal range between 4 degrees and 23
degrees south, spanning in the north the Seychelles Bank, Aldabra-Atoll,
and Mayotte (Comoro
Islands), and in the south,Tulear (Madagascar), Reunion and Mauritius.
The approach is on three time scales using:
1. Living corals to document coral growth and climatic change over the
last 1000 years.
2. Drill cores in Holocene reefs to cover the last 10,000 years.
3. Outcrops of Pleistocene limestones to investigate the past 130,000 years
and including:
a) Sampling of raised Eemian limestones;
b) Studies of drowned reef terraces (isotope stage 3 and LGM, 20-18 ka) by
submersible.
CORAL CORES
Cores collected from massive coral colonies (Porites) allow the
determination of growth bands and of an exact chronology, together with the
vertical accretion rate of the colony and variations in stable isotopes of
O and C, and of Sr with high temporal resolution.
The delta 18O-composition of the skeletal aragonite is used as a proxy for both
paleotemperature and salinity. In general, a variation of 0.22 permil is
equivalent to 1 degree C of temperature change (Epstein et al. 1953) but is
also linked to evaporation and precipitation (Swart and Coleman 1980). The
delta 13C-composition serves as a proxy for both the biological
productivity of the coral and the CO2 content of the contemporary
atmosphere (Nozaki et al. 1978).
Tropical sea surface palaeotemperatures can also be determined with high
precision by means of Sr/Ca-TIMS (thermal ionization mass spectrometry),
producing a seasonal resolution over at least the past 10,000 years (Beck
et al. 1992). This method promises to provide an additional independent
means of determining temperature which is probably less influenced by
fluctuations in the volume of ice-caps and oxygen isotope variations or by
evaporation or freshwater influx (Beck et al. 1992; De Villiers et al.
1994).
The isotopic compositions of the skeleton forming the youngest parts of the
coral cores can be calibrated with temperature readings from automatic
temperature loggers. These have been installed for two years at some of the
sampled colonies and provide measurements over this time span in steps of 2
hours.
Sampling of coral slabs with computerized drill equipment (sampling in
steps of 1/100 mm) theoretically allows the determination of up to 100
samples per year. For these studies we sample in steps of 1 mm, resulting
in a resolution of ca. 8-16 samples per year of coral growth, depending on
the relative growth rates of the corals.
Samples available from recent Porites-colonies are summarized in Table 1.
________________________________________________________
TABLE 1: RECENT CORAL CORE SAMPLES
LOCATION__NO. OF CORES__LENGTH OF LONGEST CORE__WATER DEPTH RANGE__DATE of
FIELD WORK
Mayotte, Comoros___10___238cm__1 to 7m__March 1994
Seychelles__10__203cm__2 to 9m__October 1994, November 1995
Reunion__6__195cm__6 to 13m__October 1994, November 1995
Tulear, Madagascar__16__404cm__0.5 to 7m__October 1995
________________________________________________________
HOLOCENE DRILL CORES
Methods
The Holocene reefs have all been drilled close to their outer edges in
order to obtain the maximum thickness of the carbonate deposited during the
Holocene. Corals and associated organisms (e.g. algae, molluscs) occurring
within the cores will be identified to species level in order to evaluate
the palaeobathymetry. Age determinations based on U/Th-TIMS may then
provide a dataset for establishing a sea level curve. Information can also
be gained on the relative rate of reef growth and its response to sea level
change, either 'keep up' or 'catch up' styles.
Core material will also be examined petrographically to determine both the
degree and style of diagenetic alteration. Larger coral colonies recovered
will be investigated using the same methods applied to the recent coral
cores. This will provide short sclerochronological datasets which will
include paleotemperature variability on a sub-annual resolution for
different time intervals during the Holocene. Both the general
environmental parameters and the specific patterns of change which these
reveal will be compared with those of the recent corals.
Locations
The group has recovered cores from Reunion, Mauritius and Mayotte in recent
years, and drilling operations have been completed at Tulear and on Mahe in
the Seychelles this year. On average, Holocene carbonates are more than
20m thick in the Western Indian Ocean. The oldest Holocene corals collected
so far are from Mayotte and have been dated at 9,800 yrs B.P. (Colonna
1994). The underlying substratum varies with the origin and age of the
islands. In Reunion, the basement is probably formed by Pleistocene
basalts, while in Mayotte and Mauritius the Holocene reef sequences overlie
Pleistocene limestones. On Mahe they rest on what are probably terrestrial
silts and clays which themselves overlie Precambrian granite.
EEMIAN RAISED LIMESTONES
Methods
Large EemianPorites-heads have been sampled and are being analyzed using
methods identical to those applied to the recent samples (sclerochronology,
stable isotopes). Petrographic studies are being carried out on material
from the same outcrops to assess the degree of alteration. The ages of
these carbonates will be determined using U/Th dating.
Locations
Outcrops of Eemian limestone terraces are exposed on the Seychelles
Islands, principally in small outcrops beneath granite boulders (Mahe) but
including thick (metres) in situ algal and coral crusts on Praslin and La
Digue. More extensive outcrops are found on Aldabra and other so-called
'high' limestone islands to the west. Detailed stratigraphical data are
available for Aldabra, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion from
earlier studies by the group.
Additional data
The group also has a sample set collected during a German-French mission to
Mayotte using the research submersible "Jago". During this mission several
coral samples and reef rock samples were recovered. It has been shown
that reefs flourished during isotope stage 3 (50 - 27 ka B.P.) forming
extended terraces presently drowned to around 80 m deep. Last glacial
maximum (LGM) corals were also collected, giving hints of a maximum sea
level fall of 150 m for the volcanic island of Mayotte. Such extreme
values seem to be typical for volcanic islands having no gravity
differential with the ocean crust and therefore providing a regional
hydroeustacy (Peltier 1991; Lambeck and Nakada 1992).
FUNDING
The studies are financed by a variety of funding agencies. The European
Union Programme "TESTREEF" (TEmporal and Spatial Variability in Western
Indian Ocean REEFs) is funding the research in Tulear and Seychelles.
Investigations on Reunion and Mayotte is funded by PNRCO (Programme
National Recifs Coralliens- C.N.R.S.), and by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Du 129/6 and Du 129/9).
LITERATURE
Beck, J.W., Edwards, R.L., Ito, E., Taylor, F.W., Recy, J., Rougerie, F.,
Joannot, P. and Henin, C. (1992): Sea-surface temperature from coral
skeletal Strontium/Calcium ratios.- Science, 257: 644-647.
Colonna, M. (1994): Chronologie des variation du niveau marins au cours du
dernier cycle climatique (0-140 000 ans) dans la partie sud occidental de
l'Ocean Indien. Implications paleoclimatiques et paleoceanographiques.
Ph.D. thesis, Aix-Marseille: 1-303.
De Villiers, S., Shen, G.T. and Nelson, B.K. (1994): The Sr/Ca-temperature
relationship in coralline aragonite: Influence of variability in
(Sr/Ca)seawater and skeletal growth parameters.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica
Acta, 58: 197-208.
Epstein, S., Buchsbaum, R., Lowenstam, H.A. and Urey, H.C. (1953): Revised
carbonate-water isotopic temperature scale.- Geological Society of America
Bulletin, 64: 1315-1326.
Lambeck, K. and Nakada, M. (1992): Constraints on the age and duration of
the age and duration of the last interglacial period and on sea-level
variations.- Nature, 357: 125-128.
Nozaki, Y., Rye, D.M., Turekian, K.K. and Dodge, R.E. (1978): A 200 year
record of Carbon-13 and Carbon-14 variations in a Bermuda coral.-
Geophysical Research Letters, 5/10: 825-827.
Peltier, W.R. (1991): The ICE-3G model of Late Pleistocene deglaciation:
construction, verification and applications.- In: Sabadini, R. (ed.)
Glacial Isostacy, Sea Level and Mantle Rheology: 95-119 .
Swart, P.K. and Coleman, M.L. (1980): Isotopic data for scleractinian
corals explain their paleotemperature uncertainties.- Nature, 283: 557-559.
_______________
Adresses of the group members:
Colin Braithwaite
Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G1 2 8QQ
Tel. +44.141.339.8855. Ext. 5449.
Fax. +44.141.330.4817
cjrb at geology.gla.ac.uk
Gilbert F. Camoin
URA 1208 CNRS
Universite de Provence
Centre de Sedimentologie et Paleontologie
3 Place V. Hugo
F-13331 Marseille cedex 3
Tel. +33.91106723
Fax. +33.91649964
gcamoin at cerege.fr (by January 96)
Wolf-Christian Dullo
GEOMAR
Research Center for Marine Geosciences
Wischhofstr. 1-3, Geb. 4
D-24148 Kiel
Germany
Tel +49-431-7202200
Fax +49-431-725391
cdullo at geomar.de
Georg A. Heiss
GEOMAR
Research Center for Marine Geosciences
Wischhofstr. 1-3, Geb. 4
D-24148 Kiel
Germany
Tel +49-431-7202209
Fax +49-431-725391
gheiss at geomar.de
Lucien Montaggioni
URA 1208 CNRS
Universite de Provence
Centre de Sedimentologie et Paleontologie
3 Place V. Hugo
F-13331 Marseille cedex 3
Tel. +33.91106324
Fax. +33.91649964
Marco Taviani
Istituto di Geologia Marina
Via Zamboni, 65
I-40127 Bologna
Italia
Tel. +39-51-244044
Fax +39-51-243117
taviani at boigm2.igm.bo.cnr.it
Bernard A. Thomassin
Centre D'Oceanologie de Marseille (O.S.U.)
Unite associee au CNRS (UA 41)
Rue Batterie des Lions
F-13007 Marseille
Tel. +33-91041617
Fax +33-91041635
thomassi at com.univ-mrs.fr
From osp066 at sos.bangor.ac.uk Mon Dec 18 13:51:01 1995
From: osp066 at sos.bangor.ac.uk (PETER COLLINSON)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 18:51:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: rejoinders
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Hello
I am trying to get in contact members of the coral research team in Singapore
Are you out there? If so could you please contact me, regarding coral
reef research.
Many Thanks
Peter R J Collinson
The University of Hong Kong
From coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV Fri Dec 8 14:28:31 1995
From: coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV (Coral Health and Monitoring Program)
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 07:28:31 +30000
Subject: Shutdown...again.
Message-ID:
Seasons Greetings, Colleagues!
Because of the U.S. Government budget negotiations impasse, some or all
of the Coral Health and Monitoring services (e.g., list-server, Web page,
daily posting of C-MAN data) may be temporarily discontinued. The host
machines will remain on, but if something breaks, there will be no one
around to fix it.
I hope you all have a Merry Chistmas and a Happy New Year!
Sincerely yours,
Jim Hendee
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From carlson at soest.hawaii.edu Sun Dec 24 21:03:57 1995
From: carlson at soest.hawaii.edu (Bruce Carlson)
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 16:03:57 -1000 (HST)
Subject: Coral spawning - Solomon Islands
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Solomon Islands: New Georgia group, Minjanga Is., December 11, 1995, ca.
1830 hrs ("twilight"). Various mussid corals (Acanthastrea, Lobophyllia,
and Symphyllia) were observed spawning. Aggregations of fishes feeding
on the eggs indicated the location of spawning colonies. Large
Plectorhinchus ("sweetlips") sucked up the spawn as quickly as it was
expelled.
One large anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii, also spawned at the same
time. Video tape of the spawning was taken for the record.
On the following evening at the same time at Matiu Island, more
agariciid corals spawned. No acroporids or other groups of corals
spawned on either night despite observations which continued until about
2100 hours.
Bruce Carlson
Waikiki Aquarium
University of Hawaii
From dafnaz at post.tau.ac.il Tue Dec 26 11:32:48 1995
From: dafnaz at post.tau.ac.il (zeevi dafna)
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 18:32:48 +0200 (IST)
Subject: Reaserch- assistance
Message-ID:
To all interested...
I'm a student to Marine biology in Tel-Aviv university.I'm writing my
tesis now to te M.A degree which I'm going to finish in about a month.My
reaserch was on the biology and ecology of a soft coral from the Red-Sea.
I'm interesed in working as a research assistent in a rsearch that
involves ecology and molecular biology in Marine animals (doesn't have to
be corals!).I will be avalable from March 96 until September 96.
messages to: Dafna Zeevi.
From coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV Thu Dec 14 17:42:59 1995
From: coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV (Coral Health and Monitoring Program)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:42:59 +30000
Subject: Injection Wells in West Maui
Message-ID:
The following message is being forwarded herewith to the list:
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 15:09:35 -0500
From: Ursula Keuper-Bennett
To: owner-coral-list at reef.aoml.erl.gov
Hello.
I have just received word that the EPA (Region 9) has changed its mind yet
again about the addition of more injection wells in West Maui. This area
of ocean has undergone dramatic decline since 1989 when it experienced its
first of several algae blooms.
I will once again give videotaped testimony against granting a permit for
these wells. In preparation for this it would be very helpful to know of
other sites where injection wells or sewage effluent has resulted in
eutrophication. I would be especially interested in any areas where
Cladophora was the main algae nuisance.
I also believe that eutrophication may be a factor in fibropapillomas, a
disease of green sea turtles. That is why I am presently frantic to stop
these injection wells. The sewage treatment plant in the area dumps the
waste directly into the ground. It is within 500 metres of the ocean and
they pretend it doesn't go into the ocean.
Yet all indications are that many of the corals have died, the area
experiences annual algae blooms and 75% of the turtles seen are diseased.
90% of turtles resident to the area are sick.
If this has piqued anyone's curiosity, more information about this area
and its special environmental problems can be accessed directly at
http://www.io.org:80/~bunrab/tumoursa.htm
Any help would be appreciated.
^ Ursula Keuper-Bennett
0 0 Mississauga, Ontario
/V^\ I I /^V\ Email: howzit at io.org
/V Turtle Trax V\
/V Forever Green V\ http://www.io.org/~bunrab
From coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV Tue Dec 26 17:12:11 1995
From: coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV (Coral Health and Monitoring Program)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:12:11 +30000
Subject: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd)
Message-ID:
The following is a message from Ed Parnell of University of Hawaii, and is
herewith forwarded to the list. Sorry for the delay in posting, brought
about by the U.S. Government budget impasse. In the future, any messages
sent to coral-list at reef.aoml.noaa.gov will be automatically forwarded to
the list without need for human intervention (we hope!).
JCH
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 10:22:44 -1000 (HST)
From: Ed Parnell
To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui
Deb Schulman and Ed Laws in the oceanography dept. at UH found that
ammonia, nitrate, silicate (indicator of freshwater), and del N-15 ratios
were higher at Barbers Point and Ewa Beach than most other areas of Mamala
Bay. They implicated cesspools to account for the high ammonia and/or
groundwater intrusion from the Ewa plain (cultivated for sugar cane for
the last 100 years) to account for the other high variables. The pattern
of higher nutrients and del N-15 was robust over the ranges of seasonal
variation they observed. This work was part of the Mamala Bay study.
Brad Gould, in a separate study within the MBS, found that nitrate
concentrations were significantly correlated with wave energy. The
relationship was non-linear; nitrate concentrations increased with
increasing wave energy, and the slope at which nitrate concentrations
increased became steeper with increasing wave energy. Pore waters
(including groundwater) are pumped by increasing wave energy. This all
means that groundwater is a likely significant source of nitrate.
Algal diversity and biomass was quantified as part of MBS by Alison Kay
et al. They studied three areas; 1) the natatorium (Waikiki) 2) Sand
Isalnd and 3) Honouliuli. Algae were studied at three depths 7, 17, and
27 m during winter 94, summer 94, and winter 95. Temporal and spatial
variability of dry weight data was so great, just by looking at their
graphs (no stats done unfortunately), that no clear pattern emerged.
Algal diversity (as # of genera; no diversity indeces were calculated)
was highest at Barbers Point. Lynbia and Pterocladia were dominants at
all three sites.
From coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV Tue Dec 26 17:13:25 1995
From: coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV (Coral Health and Monitoring Program)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:13:25 +30000
Subject: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd)
Message-ID:
Another forwarded message...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 2 Jan 1996 12:43:17 -0500
From: Haskell, B.
To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Subject: RE: Injection Wells in West Maui
FYI, the Florida environmental regulatory commission recently decided not
to permit anymore injection wells in the Florida Keys due to nearshore
water quality degradation.
bhaskell at ocean.nos.noaa.gov
From coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV Tue Dec 26 17:14:37 1995
From: coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV (Coral Health and Monitoring Program)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:14:37 +30000
Subject: Injection Wells in West Maui (fwd)
Message-ID:
This forwarded message is apparently in response to the message posted by
Ursula Keuper-Bennett (howzit at io.org).
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:13:31 -0700
From: Jack Hardy
To: Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Subject: Re: Injection Wells in West Maui
Send me your mailing address and I'll send copies of a couple of papers we
did years ago on eutrophication along the coast of Lebanon, including
algal; blooms.
Jack Hardy, Director
Center for Environmental Sciences
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9181
voice 360-650-6108
fax 360-650-7284